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phosfateAre you up for the challenge of reading 50 books in 2012?
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Well gawrsh, I'll just try my darnedest toahahahaHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Well gawrsh, I'll just try my darnedest toahahahaHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
*page flip*
Snort.
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Date: 2012-01-04 01:57 am (UTC)Then again, I'm a whackjob.
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Date: 2012-01-04 03:54 am (UTC)I have discovered, after my foot surgery, that needing a wheelchair during air travel means getting through security in about 1/10 the time.
I plan to be handicapped every time I fly from now on. *g*
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Date: 2012-01-04 04:22 am (UTC)I like pulling into Chicago. It's like you're suddenly in a Night Stalker episode. (Total Darkness!) (You're underground!) "Um. Are we dead?"
My one experience with handicappery was when I flew to MWest with a cane (dicky knee). People tended to talk to me VERY LOUDLY. "Is this seat taken?" "NO YOU GO RIGHT AHEAD AND SIT HERE." "May I have a small order of fries and a medium soda?" "WELL OF COURSE YOU CAN HONEY."
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Date: 2012-01-04 04:30 am (UTC)Goddamn!!
Oh, God, I'd forgotten about the underground train station. SO much better than St. Louis, though--the station's a freakin' trailer. I remember trying to find my train home in that underground labyrinth in Chicago.
LMAO at your handicapped experience. Apparently a dicky knee translates into being hearing impaired and/or mentally challenged.
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:47 am (UTC)Because there are hundreds of thousands of people who don't even read their cereal boxes, much less a book or two a week--of *any* kind. Nobody here said they were reading War and Peace every week. We're just voracious consumers of the written word.
Be proud. :-)
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:02 am (UTC)<hits next page button on Kindle>
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:03 am (UTC)(If they wanted to challenge me, they should go for "Can you read fifty books before March?")
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:47 am (UTC)(Peter Anghelidies is a friend, but I am not wild about his tie-ins.)
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Date: 2012-01-04 03:17 am (UTC)I had originally misread that as fifty books in 12 weeks but 12 MONTHS?
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Date: 2012-01-04 04:00 am (UTC)She loves her Amazon Prime status, she does she does.
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Date: 2012-01-04 04:18 am (UTC)I'm about 90% a nonfiction reader, and I have obsessions on certain nonfiction subjects. Need a book on the history of the Manhattan project, atomic history, etc? I have a shelf full, all the 'classics' and some really obscure titles. Ditto Tudor history and biography. And odd medical books and tales - I fell in love with Berton Roueche's books in Jr. High. So, yeah.
Gotta go read the latest. It's about the controversy surrounding the history of the first experiments in blood transfusion in 18th century France, and a murder. Looks good....
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Date: 2012-01-04 04:46 am (UTC)God, in my head, the Manhattan Project is written and illustrated by Kate Beaton.
Oppenheimer: "Christ, here comes that prick Teller."
Feynman: "Hey, Eddie, I fixed your safe for you!"
Teller: "What? There is nothing wrong with my safe!"
Feynman and Oppenheimer bust up laughing.
Teller: "You shits. I am so telling Groves."
Feynman: "I'll see you guys later. I have to go learn Mayan so I can write my sister a letter."
Teller (mutters): "I'll write your sister a letter..."
Later Teller challenges Oppenheimer to a duel, which is fought with Vulcan weaponry and has the TOS fight music playing in the background.
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Date: 2012-01-04 04:42 pm (UTC)KROYKAH!
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Date: 2012-01-06 09:50 pm (UTC)I'm a couple of hundred pages into the new Steve Jobs biography, which is proving to be quite compelling (much as the man himself, apparently). The next one on the stack is the new book by Michael Moore, "Here Comes Trouble." Suzan said that one is quite good.
And I just picked up "Death Comes to Pemberly" by P.D. James. One of those books that involves Jane Austen characters (in this case, from "Pride and Prejudice") in a murder mystery. I'm not normally interested in books of this type, but P.D. James is a different kettle of fish.
I'm also rereading some zines, because I started a project of reorganizing some of the zine shelves--and that always turns into as much a reading project as an organizing project. :-)
So I've been going through what's left of my "Sentry Duty" TS zines. (I refer to them as "what's left" because, where Agent With Style zines are concerned, I usually would end up ripping them apart to keep the bits and pieces I found worthwile. And, as anyone who knows me will tell you, ripping up zines is something I used to consider sacrilege. Until the era of the modern fanzine, that is.)
I'm also rereading the issues of "Sentry Post" from Linda Hutcheson. Now *that* was a superior quality zine.
And I'm dipping into some "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" fanzines, like "Double, Double," "The Persian Flaw," and "Bloody Marvelous."
There you go. The trivia of my life. :-)
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Date: 2012-01-06 09:58 pm (UTC)My bag currently contains a book on making Yellow Submarine, but I've only read the intro.